unsent draft messages

Beholden to your gaze

I turn away—into the haze of the afternoon sky

Or was that all still your eyes?…

Losing myself…

Shimmering hues dance and swirl, devilishly,

as my mind—a dervish—whirls

into dreams beyond such naïve conjecture.

…

Akhiyan (Bekhudi) – “Eyes (Ecstasy of Self-loss)” in Urdu; perception dissolving into surrender, or the gaze that unravels the self.